®Planning appeal decision
All Saints Hotel, Fornham St. Genevieve , BURY ST. EDMUNDS, IP28 6JQ
reconfiguration of second floor roof to existing bedroom wing and four storey linked extension creating 37 bedrooms and three residential dwellings on the second floor
- Authority
- West Suffolk
- Appeal type
- major · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Hearing
- Development
- residential · Other Major Developments
- Inspector
- Simpson L
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the principle of development is acceptable and in particular, whether the three proposed dwellings would accord with the Council's strategy for the location of development.
What decided it
The extant fallback position (the Previous Permission, under construction) reduced the conflict with the development plan to a purely technical one, allowing the moderate benefits of the three additional dwellings to outweigh that limited harm.
the limited, technical harm arising from conflict with the development plan's countryside housing policies was outweighed by the moderate social and economic benefits of adding three dwellings to the housing stock, particularly when compared against the fallback position
Framework references: 80
Plan policies cited: Policy DM5, Policy DM27, Policy DM25, Policy CS1, Policy DM22, Policy DM2
The main issues and the deciding factor are read from the published letter by Town Planner Pro; the letter itself is the record. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Research, not advice.